Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian designer, artist, writer, educator and speaker based in New York City, whose work focuses on climate issues and social justice. She is the founder of Slow Factory, a non-profit education and research platform that teaches about regenerative design. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Vogue, Elle, Refinery29 and New York Magazine, among others, and her first book A Woman Is a School was published in 2024.
For design to become truly sustainable in the face of rapid climate change we must first acknowledge its ties to colonialism, writes Céline Semaan. More about "We must confront design's colonial inheritance"